Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's policy paper entitled Home Office immigration and nationality fees published on 20 February 2020, what recent assessment she has made of compliance of the fee for registering a child as a British citizen with the ruling in PRCBC and others v SSHD [2019] EWHC 3536 (Admin).

Although the judge ruled that there had not been proper consideration of the Government’s section 55 duties, the Immigration and Nationality Fees Regulations 2018 were not found to be unlawful.

We therefore continue to charge Child Registration fees as set out in the Fees Regulations. The court case remains on-going; the Home Office notes the Court’s judgment from the Admin Court and is considering its implications carefully, while awaiting the appeal hearing.